Competing with Giants - How to Win with Drupal vs Proprietary Alternatives

Time slot: 
March 8th, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 
Sheraton 1
Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

Drupal has become a serious player in the enterprise market, encountering a new set of competitors along the way.

Free software alone isn't enough for most larger organizations to choose Drupal. The technical selection process is more intensive, with many more stakeholders influencing the decision process - each with their own biases and requirements. Additionally, enterprises rely on guidance from analysts and their peers to create their short list of potential options to consider. Raising the visibility of Drupal's strengths and success stories is critical to competing effectively in the enterprise market.

At Acquia, we spend a great deal of time helping organizations understand the power of both Drupal and the community, and why this combination is what makes Drupal the best choice for high performance organizations serious about the social web. In this session, we'll share our experiences positioning Drupal with the analyst community and with senior level executives from prospective customers. We'll discuss Drupal's weaknesses and lessons we've learned when Drupal has lost during the selection process, and how we, as a community, can work together to improve our chances in the future.

Video available at Archive.org.

Intended audience: 

Any selling or positioning Drupal vs proprietary solutions, either internally or for their clients.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How to position Drupal's unique strengths vs proprietary competitors?
Question 2: 
Where competitors beat up on Drupal and how to diffuse these situations?
Question 3: 
How to combat FUD from proprietary vendors and put them on the defensive in the selling process?
Question 4: 
How to make enterprise buyers understand why open source makes Drupal a better technical option?
Question 5: 
Why the analyst community is important and how to help raise Drupal's profile to these important influencers?
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Hi, Can you share the slide

Hi,
Can you share the slide used for this presentation .
Thanks

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